March 2022
113 articles published this month.
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Worth Watching
Why CODA Transcends Its Coming-Of-Age Formula
CODA Released Aug. 13, 2021 Directed by Sian Heder Starring Emilia Jones, Marlee Matlin, and Eugenio Derbez Currently streaming on Apple TV+ Whenever K says that she’s read a good review about a movie, I get…
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Worth Reading
Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm
Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm By Thich Nhat Hanh 176 pages First published Jan. 1, 2012 by HarperOne This was a Christmas book – a stocking stuffer that fit easily into my reindeer…
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Readers Write
Readers Weigh In On Depression, Diet, And Markets
Re the Feb. 23 issue on Depression: “I want to thank you Mark for being open about a very important challenge for a lot of people. I enjoyed reading your deep dive in applying an analytical metric to this…
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Postscript
Bill Maher On Florida's COVID Response
Bill Maher on Florida and COVID…
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From My Work-in-Progress Basket
Why Good Advice Usually Doesn’t Work
Why Good Advice Usually Doesn’t Work “Who’s this guy?” I asked Giovanna. “He’s the brother of a person that used to work for you. You said you’d take his call.” “What brother?” “I can check.” “Don’t bother…
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News & Views
Amazon Drops BLM Non-Profit Funding Platform
If you are a NYT reader, you may not have heard all the stories out there in the conservative media about how the head of the BLM Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) was buying multimillion-dollar mansions soon…
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Notes From My Journal
How Not to Raise Spoiled Brats
I believe children grow up to be what their parents want them to be. When my children were young, I wanted them to be good at everything they did – school, sports, music lessons, etc. And they did a reasonable…
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Fun and/or Interesting
Why Core Inflation Ignores Food And Fuel
Curious: About the Inflation Rate The core inflation rate, for some reason, does not include two metrics that are very important: the price of food and the price of fuel. That seems bizarre to me. Those are…
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Recommended Places
Venice
Venice Here's the most important thing a new visitor should know about Venice: It’s just too crowded with tourists during the season. Better to visit in the Spring or Fall. And it’s got much more than the big…
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Arts & Letters
Letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson to his daughter, April 8, 1854
“Finish every day and be done with it. For manners and for wise living it is a vice to remember. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can…
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Worth Quoting
William O. Douglas On Protecting Free Speech
* “Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.” – William O. Douglas * “We love in another’s soul…
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Readers Write
Readers Share How Depression Coverage Changed Their Lives
Re the Feb. 23 issue on Depression: “I… wanted to both thank and commend you for the ranking system and the courage it took to talk about your malady. I’ve had some 3.5 days with the addition of physical pain…
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Postscript
Ben E. King's "Stand by Me" Gets Perfect Cover
The best-ever performance of “Stand by Me”…
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